A new art exhibition, installed at the legendary Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village, featuring the paintings of world-renowned New York City-based artist Robert Cenedella, will officially open to the public on January 24, 2018, with a reception from 5:30 - 7:00 pm. The exhibition will be up through the end of February.

This exhibition marks the start of a series of special events to announce the Cornelia Street Café's Underground performance space attaining its new 501 c3 status, a little more than a year after sheltering under the capacious wings of Fractured Atlas, an arts service organization with the goal of impacting a wider segment of the arts community in a manner that is both scalable and sustainable.

At only 23, Ofri Nehemya had the opportunity to share the stage with leading jazz figures as:
Avishai Cohen (bass), Omer Avital, Eli Degibri, Avishai Cohen (tpt), Aaron Goldberg and many others,
becoming one of the leading drummers in the Israeli jazz scene for the last few years.
Nehemya’s Quartet started it's way more than 4 years ago and shares a fresh and exciting performance,
combining different styles of music as Fusion, Jazz and World Music.
In this Special show, Nehemya’s group is featuring one of the leading guitar voices in the NYC jazz scene -
Yotam Silberstein.

Eden Ladin is a New York based pianist and composer with a unique touch and approach to harmony and time.
He is mostly known for his work as a sideman in various settings. Eden has been performing, recording and
touring with artists Wallace Roney, Avishai Cohen, Ari Hoenig, Omer Avital, Myron Walden and many more. He
released his debut album, "YEQUM" on October 2017 and received very positive reviews from magazines such
as DownBeat and All About Jazz. He'll be playing variety of music with a band consisting some of New York's
finest musicians on the scene.

"A diverse album of mood and texture, it’s also one of thoughtful pacing" - —Carlo Wolf, Downbeat Magazine

"Ladin baits and catches the ears by using space to his advantage, not as a canvas begging to have every inch
filled..... This music all feels remarkably complete without ever trying to oversell itself" - DAN BILAWSKY, All
About Jazz

A singer of elegant taste, pure expressiveness and irresistible sensuality, Michelle Lordi is quickly becoming one of the most
sought after vocalists on the jazz circuit. Join Lordi and her sublime band for 3 generations of heartfelt love songs- a perfect
way to get a head start on Valentine's Day.

The musical duo Beckenstein-Brown help us launch Go Deep, a book of poetry and pastels by poet Steve Nolan and artist NJ DeVico.

Steve Nolan has been writing poetry for 40 years, has spent time in Afghanistan, and as a social worker in the US Army and Air Force. NJ DeVico fell in love with Crayola crayons 56 years ago, but has since moved up to oil pastels.

Marion Beckenstein has sung extensively with Steve Reich and Musicians, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Music Before 1800 and the Long Island Baroque Ensemble, among others. Bryan Brown plays in the post-Nuggetist Shanghai Love Motel of New York City. The pair come by their repertoire via Appalachia, Hibernia, NYC, Saskatchewan, and too many other places to mention. Both reside near the top of the Manhattan Island.

To commemorate the birthday of Django Reinhardt, Cornelia Street Café will extend the monthly Django At
Cornelia concert series to three nights.

Equally at home as both leader and sideman, Dan Levinson’s roster of musical associates includes such names
as Mel Tormé, Wynton Marsalis and Dick Hyman. Originally from Los Angeles, Dan has been based in New York
since 1983, although his busy schedule often takes him across the continent and around the world. He has
performed in Brazil with filmmaker Woody Allen’s band, as well as in Japan, Iceland, Latvia, and eighteen
European countries. From 1990 to 2002 Dan toured with singer/guitarist Leon Redbone. Since 1993 he has
been a member of Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, with whom he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, on Late Night
with Conan O’Brien, and on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio program.

$10 cover plus $10 minimum

Monday, Jan 29 - 6:00PM
JIM STORY & LESLEY DORMEN: A LITERARY EVENING

A delightful evening of current fiction! Jim Story and Lesley Dormen will read from their new and recent work.

To commemorate the birthday of Django Reinhardt, Cornelia Street Café will extend the monthly Django At
Cornelia concert series to three nights.

A band of like minded stalwarts of the NYC jazz scene, Anouman takes the music of legendary guitarist Django
Reinhardt as its jumping off point but by no means final destination. Consisting of Peter Sparacino (saxophone
and woodwinds), Koran Agan (lead guitar), Eduardo Belo (bass), and Josh Kaye (rhythm guitar), Anouman is
equipped to realize any spontaneous musical vision and performs their virtuosic and exciting originals to
packed houses and foot-stomping, glasses-raised acclaim.

Anouman has most recently performed at the Winter JazzFest in NYC, Midwest Gypsy Swing Festival, Charm
City DjangoFest, Django by the Sea Jazz Festival and many more.

Baltimore based UltraFaux performs original acoustic music with Romani, Manouche, swing, funk, blues, and
musette influences. The band is an acoustic powerhouse of two guitars and upright bass. Sami Arefin and
Michael Joseph Harris trade dazzling leads and harmonize together on rich gypsy ­inspired melodies.The
dynamic Eddie Hrybyk on upright bass holds down the steady swinging pulse and brings his passion for
improvisation to the group. The musicians of Ultrafaux are also the core trio of Hot Club of Baltimore, a larger
ensemble which features vocalist Alexis Tantau, specializing in the music of Django Reinhardt and early French
Jazz.

Progressive jazz vocalist, Kristina Koller infuses jazz with r&b and rock elements into her original takes on jazz standards, pop tunes, as well as her own compositions. She will be celebrating the release of her debut album “Perception”.

"Igor absorbs the clatter and racket of the once (and maybe once again) Great City of New York. Fragmented
words that you pass on the street or that seep into your ears in bars. He can make everyone in a room grow
silent enough to hear his breath over the long notes of a ballad. The way he plays Bop makes you feel like
you're in a fight for your life. The folk music of the Balkans is in his blood and bones, and he weaves extended
lines over 11/8 like it’s a two-beat polka. He can veer and swerve outside the margins, leaving structure and
melody in the dust and turning sound into emotion and making you feel like you’re being psychoanalyzed.

That’s the thing about Igor: He’s always thinking. Always listening. Always playing. Always living. And always
digging so deep that you think: I’m dead. Buried. Six feet underground. And then he digs you back out, and
you see the light, and you’re glad to be among the living."--Billy F